Watch Pete Chatmon’s Short Film “BlackCard”Posted by Wilson Morales
February 1, 2018
After making several film festival appearances followed by a successful run on HBO, director and producer Pete Chatmon‘s 2015 short film, BlackCard, is now available on YouTube.
Written by Tony Patrick, the cast includes Dorian Missick, Simone Missick, Hisham Tawfiq, Stephen Hill, Erika Myers, Malikha Mallette, April Matthis, and Valence Thomas.
It would be just another day for Leonard, except The Commission, a shadow organization tasked with keeping members up to snuff on their “blackness”, is hot on his trail for his latest infraction. An afternoon with the love of his life, Lona, goes off course as a missing ID card escalates into questions of loyalty, life, and love…
The film was produced by Christina DeHaven, Tony Patrick, Dorian Missick, Dylan Verrechia, and ELEW with Chatmon serving as an executive producer.
Chatmon is best known for writing, producing, and directing the feature film Premium, starring Dorian Missick and Zoe Saldana. Most recently, he directed seasons one and two of “American Koko” for ABC Digital and Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions, as well as “Due North”, a season long interstitial for season two of HBO’s “Insecure”. Pete directed a season four episode of ABC’s “Black-ish” and two episodes of FreeForm’s season one hit “Grown-ish”. In 2018 he is already booked for the one-hour drama “Greenleaf” on the Oprah Winfrey Network and HBO’s Insecure Season 3, with more assignments to come.
